"adobe max"

Learn about cutting-edge features for laying out content with CSS. Discover best practices and techniques that will work across a variety of scenarios. In this session, we'll cover:• Using Flexbox to position elements in relation to each other• Laying things out using CSS grid systems• New features for text layout like CSS regions and exclusions• Managing content with page templates

Adobe TV's chief goof ball (CGB) Kush Amerasinghe sneaks you into the Adobe MAX Bash and talks about what it was like to attend Adobe MAX 2013 in L.A. from his personal perspective in this hypnotic slow motion wearable camera video blog entry.

Adobe Principal Solutions Consultant Richard Curtis took a few minutes at Adobe MAX to catch up with UK-based trainer Maxim Jago, to get his thoughts on how Creative Cloud will free up individuals from worrying about the technology, enabling them to concentrate on their creativity.

Adobe Evangelist Enrique Duvos took a few minutes at Adobe MAX to catch up with Ron Toekook, Manager of the Netherlands Adobe User Group, on his thoughts about attending his 1st MAX and to how he thinks Creative Cloud will help the 7,000+ members of his group to collaborate, give feedback, and get inspiration from one another like never before.

Adobe Evangelist Enrique Duvos took a few minutes at Adobe MAX to catch up with Martin Bjeld, Co-Manager of the DFUG user group in Denmark, to learn his thoughts on how he thinks file synchronisation and seamless upgrades will impact his workflow.

Adobe Evangelist Michael Chaize took a few minutes at Adobe MAX to catch up with UK-based Matt Gifford, Manager of the Hertfordshire Adobe User Group and Adobe Community Professional, on his thoughts about attending his 3rd MAX. Matt also shares how he thinks the new Creative Cloud will impact community, communication and collaboration.

Adobe Evangelist Rufus Deuchler took a few minutes at Adobe MAX to catch up with Netherlands-based Peter Villevoye, a trainer for the past 25 years on Adobe tools and technology. Peter explains why he is attending his first MAX and how he thinks Behance will impact his students' work and future collaboration habits.

The process of where and how we create is dramatically changing thanks to major advancements in technology, and there has never been a more exciting time. Join Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Adobe's SVP and GM of Digital Media David Wadhwani, and a collection of Adobe visionaries across digital photography, web design, illustration, video and more as we unveil brand new creative workflows and capabilities. We'll take a look at the present and set our sights on the endless possibilities in our creative future.

Join Max Master Jason Levine as he teaches the best ways to record voice-overs and clean up voice audio. Making a quality recording of a person’s voice is deceptively difficult, and this session will give you essential tools for making your recordings sound their best.In this session, you’ll learn how to:• Choose the best microphone• Set up the appropriate recording environment• Remove ambient noise before and after your recording

Want to create and edit QR codes directly in InDesign? This sneak peek shows you something we're working on for the next version of InDesign. See more exciting developments on May 6 at Adobe MAX: adobe.com/go/AdobeNext

Join the Brackets community for a showcase of bleeding-edge experiments in web development and design tooling. This demo-only session is packed with some of the best ideas from the web community and Adobe. Jason San Jose, lead contributor to Brackets, will moderate:• Live demos and experiments• Working prototypes• Results from the Adobe MAX Brackets Hackathon

Learn how to make your Adobe Photoshop files developer-friendly. Justin Seeley, staff author at lynda.com, will walk through a real-world website comp design for a client and then take you through that comp design process using Photoshop. We'll explore the entire Photoshop to HTML workflow. During this session, you'll learn how to:• Build a document for web vs. print• Take responsive design into consideration• Build wireframe mockups using shape layers• Integrate Photoshop artwork into apps like Adobe Muse and Dreamweaver

Enrich your experience with Adobe products with Adobe Exchange, a new marketplace of resources and software. Whether you create for Adobe products or use them, this session is for you. Adobe Exchange Product Manager Jonathan Ferman will cover:• How to find the best products on Exchange to make you more efficient and effective in your favorite Adobe apps• How to create your own products and distribute them publicly or privately• A sneak peek at features and other Adobe apps that will support Exchange in the future

Join SapientNitro for a discussion on the planning, execution, and presentation of a real-time, omnichannel campaign created here at Adobe MAX. You'll learn about the customer engagement, social interaction, and on-the-fly production of a digital campaign based on the live "Adobe Throwdown" design tournament. The ever-changing digital landscape of the new agency, along with the traditional advertising mainstay of capturing the human story, will be brought together to demonstrate the future of marketing.

You haven't seen web design like this before. Meet Adobe Muse, a graphic designer's new best friend. Adobe Muse lets you create professional HTML websites that meet the latest web standards, without restrictive templates and without writing code. In this session, you'll see how to use Adobe Muse to:• Lay a smart foundation for your site using sitemaps and master pages• Design freely, as easily as creating layouts for print, using familiar features found in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign• Combine imagery, graphics, and beautiful typography• Add engaging interactivity such as contact forms and slide shows• Publish with Adobe or a hosting provider of your choice.

Discover Adobe Muse, the missing link between your print design skills and amazing digital work. Hear from print-centric designers who have successfully expanded their client offerings by creating beautiful, highly interactive websites using Adobe Muse. In this session, you'll see how:• Wes Mitchell of Chen Design Associates rebuilt the firm's website and created several sites for clients, all with the Adobe Muse preview• Aaron McDonald revived the family's design business by making the transition from print to web• Steve Harris combined design skills and web best practices to design expressive websites for clients and build a service for Adobe Muse users

Learn how to work with Adobe Illustrator to approach the design of fashion apparel and textiles. Kevin Renard Sheffield, a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and design technologies manager for Fifth and Pacific, will be your guide to this intriguing field.This session will cover:• How to leverage Illustrator to create technical drawings, fashion illustrations, flat drawings, and storyboards for the fashion industry• How to combine the best approaches for both Illustrator and Photoshop • Effective methods of working in Illustrator

Discover how you can perform advanced profiling of your Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR content across mobile and desktop. Profiling in Flash Player has been revolutionized, and Gavin Peacock and Thibault Imbert from the Adobe Scout team are your guides to the latest innovations. Join us for a deep dive into next-generation profiling.This session will include:- Introduction to Adobe Scout and its potential uses- Technical demonstration on how to use the tool to profile both desktop and mobile content- Best practices and tips

What are the new apps, tools, and services driving changes in the creative process? Terry White shows off the latest in digital imaging, illustration and publishing, Jason Levine shares brand new video features, and Jeff Veen demonstrates new features within Adobe's web design applications.

Adobe's XD Seed team was tasked with inventing the future of collaborative workspaces. Learn how Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, helped inspire this vision. We'll show how the Context project came to life.Adobe XD's Remon Tijssen, principal designer, and David Macy, principal incubator, will present:• Why WIRED says, "I can't tell you how excited we are about Context and the creative liberties it is going to provide us"• How trends in technology such as touchscreens, sensors, and multidevice interfaces change the way we collaborate• The energetic beauty of a system based on simple containers and high-performing, natural gestures• The evolution of Context from prototype to production code

With Creative Cloud as a canvas, how is Adobe now re-imaginging the creative future? Get a sneak peek at Adobe's boldest explorations across new types of tools and workflows that will entirely change the game.

Join Adobe Evangelists James Li and Peter Huang as they show how to use Adobe Creative Cloud for character animation and game art design. They'll demonstrate a highly efficient workflow to create lively GPU-accelerated, interactive 2D skeletal game animations.Li and Huang will cover:• Game animation design: How to architect, design, and create game assets with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Audition• Game animation implementation: How to create skeletal animations in Adobe Flash Professional using the DragonBones design panel • Integration with a game engine: How to export your animations into texture assets in different formats for popular GPU rendering frameworks like Stage3D or cocos2d

Join in the fun for one of the most entertaining sessions at MAX, where Adobe worldwide design evangelists compete against each other in a creative cage match. From Photoshop to Illustrator, InDesign to Adobe Muse and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite — there's no telling what amazing tricks and techniques you'll pick up while they attempt to out-do each other.Come cheer on our participants:• Rufus Deuchler: World-renowned designer, author, teacher, and presenter, he's dedicated to helping creative pros bridge the gap between knowledge and application of publishing software programs.• Terry White: He's a best-selling author, fan-favorite presenter, avid photographer, Adobe Certified Expert and Creative Suite Master, with over 30,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and over 19,000 followers on Twitter. White is a force to be reckoned with!

Ben Forta, Adobe's Director of Evangelism interviews Paul Gubbay, VP Design and Web Engineering at Adobe and John Resig, father and lead developer of the JQuery JavaScript library as they discuss Adobe and its relationship to HTML5, and Adobe's work supporting JQuery.

User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future. Join us to be inspired (and, yes, entertained) as we show you the future of building interactive and engaging experiences in ways you've yet to imagine.

A crack team including an experience researcher (Duane Nickull), a designer (Paul Trani), and a developer (Ming-En Cho) work to improve both desktop and mobile applications for Adobe’s Customer Service representatives. Lee Brimelow is the host.

Four contestants compete to create the best shopping application, using the mystery ingredient: Flex. One team (Deepa Subramaniam & Narciso Jaramillo) builds a mobile application and the other team (Doug Winnie & Adam Cath) builds a browser-based application. Serge Jespers is the host.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.

Learn essential Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization tools and techniques for making images look their best, while debunking web resolution myths. Discover easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail. Learn how to enhance JPEG files using Camera Raw and how to control optimization settings for embedded bitmaps in Flash Professional. And, get tips for optimizing your workstation for fast performance. This session is a must for anyone who works with images for web and interactive design.

Join Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes for a deep dive into the hidden gems of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, including tips, tricks, and technologies that are sure to help you speed up your productivity. Discover how to go places creatively that were impossible in Photoshop before CS5. He'll reveal many new techniques and enhancements so your skills can be as sharp as possible.

See what's new with 3D in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Learn techniques for using features such as new Adobe Repoussé technology, enhanced 3D realism, rich library of materials, painting in 3D, and so much more. You'll leave this session with a great understanding of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS5 Extended. After this session, newcomers to 3D in Photoshop will be well on their way to being able to quickly and easily add 3D to their repertoire, and experts will pick up must-have techniques for speeding up their workflow and making amazing designs.

Discover the many design possibilities with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended by exploring the latest design trends from movies, TV, and magazines. This session will cover masks, selections, and creating stunning effects, including working with 3D and video, plus so much more. You'll walk away with killer tips and techniques that take advantage of the magic of Photoshop.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, discusses how multiscreen is transforming the experience for enterprise customer-facing applications as well as internal applications. Guest appearances by David Nuescheler, Day CTO and Mike Lazaridis, RIM CEO.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, talks about the major transformation occurring in the publishing industry as they move their brands to a digital experience. Guests include Martha Stewart from Martha Stewart Living and Joe Simon from Conde Nast.

Learn essential techniques from one of the original pioneers in digital painting and a master at painting in Photoshop CS5. Watch as John Derry shows how to quickly and easily enhance your images with the new realistic painting tools in Photoshop CS5. See how you can transform your images and designs subtly or to the extreme to get amazing results. You'll walk away knowing killer tips and tricks along with new painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills.

Discover the innovations behind the new book on 3D techniques for Photoshop CS5 Extended and the associated iPad app (an interactive version of the book's first chapter). The app explains 3D concepts in a fun, interactive way. Join Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee as she walks through the process of creating the app and its contents and explains how to use Photoshop CS5 Extended to create rich interactive content, including 360-degree spherical panoramas, 3D camera/object rotations, 3D objects and effects, and more, plus offers firsthand tips on building an iPad digital publication app.

Join Julieanne Kost, Adobe digital imaging evangelist and one of Fast Company's Top 100 Most Creative People in Business of 2009, in this exciting session as she demonstrates Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Take a tour through Lightroom to see how it can help you manage volumes of images and enhance and stylize them to communicate your message. Also learn how to move seamlessly between Photoshop and Lightroom. She'll provide critical tips and techniques used by leading photographers for perfecting images. Both designers and photographers, from novices to experts in digital imaging, have something to gain from this session.

Discover the many design, motion, and digital imaging possibilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended with Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Explore the latest hot features in this hands-on session that will cover Content-Aware Fill, improved selection tools, Puppet Warp, painting tools, 3D capabilities, and so much more. You'll learn how to create mind-blowing effects — the same ones used by leading professionals today — and get your work done fast.

At the Adobe MAX conference, thousands of designers, developers and business leaders converge to discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens, the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together.

Adobe's Director of Evangelism Ben Forta has spent countless hours preparing keynotes and sessions for Adobe MAX 2009. In this interview, Ben takes a break from planning to provide the inside scoop on this year's premier community event.

To promote healthy relationships among youth, Replay: Finding Zoe/ReJouer: Où es Zoé guides players on an online journey to equality and an understanding of gender-based violence. Players search with friends to find Zoe, who is rumored to be in an abusive relationship. As they navigate their neighborhood, they play games that encourage them to be respectful, confident communicators who can challenge misconceptions about relationships and abuse. They also learn some warning signs of abuse and how to find community resources.

We Choose the Moon delivers more than 110 hours of streaming audio and animations to recreate Apollo 11's historic journey to the moon in realtime. The interactive experience was concepted by The Martin Agency and designed and developed by Domani Studios using Adobe AIR, After Effects CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

TeamTool enables mobile users to connect with friends and share details about their favorite landmarks using a range of rich features from text and audio to video and GPS information. TeamTool was created using Adobe Flash Lite, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Synchronous Objects reveals the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography of William Forsythe's dance, One Flat Thing, reproduced. Users can explore choreographic structures, discover patterns and re-imagine what they might look like through streaming video, animation, information graphics and interactive creative tools. Concept, analysis, tools and visual representations are created by The Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Department of Dance and William Forsythe. Website interface and application architecture designed and developed by tracermedia.

In State of the Sockeye, Periscopic takes visitors on an online exploration of threatened salmon populations in the North Pacific. Visitors can click on regions for detailed views of waterways, examining where sockeye salmon populations are threatened or extinct. Interactive charts and graphs highlight changes over time to provide users with immediate insight into areas facing the greatest threats. The easy-to-use site appeals to conservationists, as well as to people with a more general interest in preservation.

More than two million teenage girls have explored the virtual world of Spark City--shopping in its malls, interacting with other members, and participating in a futuristic economy. The game was created using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

This popular mobile device-based video game provides an enhanced user experience, with greater interactivity and access through a variety of platforms. The game was created with Adobe Device Central CS4, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS4 Professional, Flash Lite, and Photoshop CS3 Extended.

SmallWorlds.com combines the best of online gaming, social networking, and digital media to deliver an engaging, 3D online social community. The application was developed using Adobe Flex 3, Acrobat Connect Pro, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

The QNX CAR application platform transforms the automobile into a first-class provider of cloud services, including on-demand movies, online games, Internet radio, social networking, and many other applications. The platform was built using Adobe Flash Lite, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, and Photoshop CS4 Extended.

With PianoMarvel, Rain has created a challenging and enjoyable application that makes learning to play the piano fun. The highly visual tool was developed using Adobe Flex 3, AIR, Flash CS4 Professional, and Illustrator CS4.

For the Pepsi Max It campaign, Proximity BBDO created a dynamic online gaming experience that let players control six real-life claw machines connected to the Internet. The game was created using Adobe Flex 3, AIR, Bridge CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

School Improvement Network created PD360, a rich-media online environment that lets educators around the world collaborate and network. The application was created using Adobe Flex 3, ColdFusion, Acrobat 9, AIR, Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, Flash Remoting MX, and Photoshop CS4.

AgencyNet and Cactus Marketing teamed up to deliver Own Your C, a dynamic online forum for Colorado teenagers to discuss peer pressure and making smarter choices in their lives. Own Your C was developed using Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

Working together, unit9 and JWT Paris unveiled an interactive online experience for Nestlé Extrême ice cream that enables consumers to create and grade their own short films. The popular site was developed with Adobe After Effects CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, and AIR.

MLB Advanced Media created MLB.TV Media Player 4.0 to bring fans closer to their favorite teams with real-time and on-demand games, statistics, and commentary. The media player was developed and delivered with Adobe Flex 3, Flash Media Encoding Server, Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Media Live Encoder, Flash Media Streaming Server, After Effects CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Photoshop CS4, and IllustratorCS4. Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All rights reserved.

Fantasy Interactive's Kontain enables anyone to share their thoughts and opinions through simplified blogging and managing content on a rich-media portal. The platform was developed with Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, and Photoshop CS4.

Agency Republic's Killzone 2 Webgame draws gamers into the world of multi-player shooter games with a teaser campaign of surprise "attacks" while surfing the Internet. The online game was created using several Creative Suite 4 Master Collection components, including After Effects CS4.

With i3Cube, i3 has delivered the market's first fully integrated trial management solution, unifying the key aspects of a clinical trial's critical elements. The solution was built using Adobe LiveCycle ES solutions and Flex 3.

Second Story's GRAMMY Museum Interactives encourages museum visitors to become part of musical creation through four inspiring visual installations. The installations were created with Adobe Flex 3, After Effects CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3.

Geni Family Tree enables millions of people worldwide to work together online to seamlessly create family trees, stay in touch with long-lost relatives, and share family mementos via photos, videos, and audio. The website was created using Adobe Flex 3, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional.

Ford, Team Detroit and Firstborn created an inspiring and exciting multimedia rich site to show off every detail of the Ford Mustang, highlighting the next stage of the car's evolution. The site was created using Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

Working together, Atlantic Records and AgencyNet created a mobile application that allows music fans to connect and follow their favorite artists with real-time news and notes. Fanbase Mobile was developed using Adobe Device Central CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, and Photoshop CS4.

he U.S. Department of State developed CO.NX to connect U.S. experts with international audiences to better teach the world about the U.S, its policies, and people. CO.NX was created using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, Flash CS4 Professional, Flash Media Interactive Server, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

CDE worked with Universal Mind and the Center for Assessment to create a data visualization solution that gives people an innovative tool to analyze student-progress metrics and turn statistics into actionable information. SchoolVIEW was created using Adobe Flex, AIR, and Creative Suite 4 Design Premium.

Plug-in Media's Big & Small online experience lets kids interact with their favorite TV show characters from a new perspective, engaging visitors to learn and have fun. Big & Small was created using Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, and Soundbooth CS4.

From the battlefield to the densest urban center, Army warfighters now have instant access to advanced digital topographic and geographic information delivered in PDF. The application was developed using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, as well as TerraGo Composer, a plug-in for Acrobat.

Mike shows you a trick he learned from Russell Browns at Adobe Max; how to take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation.

Duane starts the first of a two part series covering Adobe MAX and interviewing Redmonk founder and industry superstar James Governor. Code and Tunes includes using AMF to connect to a database from Flex.